"At the conjuncture that is in Armenia now, when laws do not work, the institution of the ombudsman can function only if it is supported by independent press; but there is no independent press in Armenia today," said chairman of the Union "National Self-Determination" Paruyr Ayrikian.

Such data were published yesterday by Kheda Saratova, director of the independent press center in Grozny, and journalist Aleksandr Mnatsakanian.

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers should pay attention to the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic.

Baku's executive power head Gajibala Abutalybov addressed the letter to Musavat party leader Isa Gambar in which he demanded that the party left its headquarters at the address: 3 Prospect Azerbaijan before November 1, 2003.

The participants of the action protested against inaccurate voter lists and claimed these very lists provided a basis for the elections to be falsified.

The Russian non-government analytical center "Council for National Strategy" has prepared a document concerning future aspects of Georgia's federalization. The Georgian State Security Council considers this document to be another unofficial work, which does not present a stance of the Russian government.

110 people were set free earlier, after negotiations of human rights activists with the Interior Minister Ramil Usubov and Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov.

Deputy prosecutor of the republic Aleksandr Nikitin denied information that Russian security agencies were involved in the abductions.

Ingush President Murad Zyazikov reported it to Vladimir Putin.

According to a source closely connected with the entourage of Aslan Maskhadov, there is no and has never been such a general in the Ichkerian Armed Forces.

Students of the Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University met members of the independent nonpolitical international organization "Amnesty International" last Thursday.

It was arranged by the Stavropol State University jointly with the Russian Ministry of Education and the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

Officials of the Austrian, Czech, and German police announced at a news conference in Prague on October 24 they have jointly cracked down on an international gang smuggling people into Western Europe, mostly immigrants from Chechnya, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Yesterday, October 27, Georgian NGO representatives expressed their protest regarding the situation arisen in the Ajarian Autonomous Republic on the eve of the Georgian parliamentary elections scheduled for November 2.

The authorities consider him to be one of the organizers of the disorders in Baku that broke out just after the presidential elections of October 15.

He told it upon his return from Geneva, where he had attended the 79th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.

Human rights activists of the Memorial society, activists of the Saint Petersburg League of Anarchists and other members of the antiwar movement gave their speeches during the meeting.

The 5th congress of the Osetian people opened in Vladikavkaz on October 25. The organizer of it is the well-known public organization "Alanty Nikhas".

The International Scientific Conference "National Cultures in Modern World" was held at the Abkhazian Institute of Humanitarian Studies on October 22-24.

Bauddi Merjoev has a bad character in the Achkhoy-Martan district: district residents suspect that officers of the structure that is under command of Merjoev conduct illegal and ungrounded detentions and abductions of people, along with officers of Russian law-enforcement structures.